60 years of glaciolacustrine sedimentation in Steinsee (Sustenpass, Switzerland) compared with historic events and instrumental meteorological data

Ecologae Geologicae Helvetiae

Volumn 96, Issue SPEC, 2003, Pages

  Blass, Alex ^a   Anselmetti, Flavio S ^a   Ariztegui, Daniel ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Glacial activity; Precipitation; Proglacial lake; Seismic profiling; Turbidity currents; Varves; Vibrocoring

Indexed keywords

GLACIOLACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; LIMNOLOGY; PROGLACIAL ENVIRONMENT; SEDIMENTATION; SEISMIC SURVEY; TURBIDITY CURRENT; VARVE;

SWITZERLAND;

LAMIINAE;

EID: 0142246868     PISSN: 00129402     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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